Ecological Engineering for Pest Management: Advances in Habitat Manipulation for Arthropods
Edited by M Gurr, The University of Sydney, Australia; S D Wratten, Lincoln University, New Zealand; M A Altieri, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Pub Date: October 2004
Hardback
256 pages
Readership
Crop protection, pest management, ecology and entomology
Not available from CABI in Australia, New Zealand, USA, Central and South America and Caribbean
Key Features
• Provides a timely review of a fast-moving field
• Is written by an international team of contributors from the USA, UK,Europe, Australasia, Africa and Israel
Main Description
Habitat manipulation comprises biological control, crop rotations, crop diversity, flower strips, natural enemy refuges etc, and is a powerful tool for suppressing arthropod pest populations. It offers scope for farmers to avoid ‘high tech’ approaches, and reliance on powerful pesticides, and is the backbone of organic and traditional farming systems. This book examines the broad range of theoretical, methodological and applied approaches currently used, and captures state-of-the-art thinking by key international researchers and practitioners.
Reviews
• "Students and researchers in ecological engineering and pest management will find this study very useful for research and day to day study".
Educational Book Review, Jan-Feb 2005
• "This book achieves its main objective, to promote ecological engineering for pest management as a rigorous scientific discipline. It will make excellent reading for advanced ecology students as well as pest control practitioners."
Janet Sprent, BES Bulletin, 36 (3)
Main Contents
• Ecological engineering, habitat manipulation and pest management, G M Gurr, S L Scarratt, Lincoln University, New Zealand, S D Wratten, L Berndt, University of Canterbury, New Zealand and N Irvin, University of California, Riverside, USA
• Genetic engineering and ecological engineering: a clash of paradigms or scope for synergy?, M A Altieri, G M Gurr and S D Wratten
• The agroecological bases of ecological engineering for pest management, C I Nicholls, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and M A Altieri
• The landscape context of arthropod biological control, M H Schmidt, C Thies, and T Tscharntke, Georg-August University, Germany
• Use of behavioural and life-history studies to understand the effects of habitat manipulation, M A Jervis, Cardiff University, UK, J C Lee and G E Heimpel, University of Minnesota, USA
• Molecular techniques and habitat manipulation approaches for parasitoid conservation in annual cropping systems, F D Menalled, Montana State University, USA, J M Alvarez, University of Idaho, USA, and D A Landis, Michigan State University, USA
• Marking and tracking techniques for insect predators and parasitoids in ecological engineering, B Lavandero, Lincoln University, New Zealand, S D Wratten, and J Tylianakis, Georg-August University, Germany
• Precision agriculture approaches in support of ecological engineering for pest management, M Coll, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• The ecology and management of insect pest populations in tropical agroforestry systems, M A Altieri and C I Nicholls
• The ‘push-pull’ strategy for stemborer management: a case study in exploiting biodiversity and chemical ecology, Z R Khan, International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology, Kenya and J A Pickett, Rothamsted Research, UK
• Use of sown wildflower strips to enhance natural enemies of agricultural pests, L Pfiffner and E Wyss, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture, Switzerland
• Habitat manipulation for insect pest management in cotton cropping systems, R K Mensah, Australian Cotton Research Institute, Australia and R V Sequeira, Queensland Department of Primary Industries, Australia
• Engineering farmland for enhanced pest control: added value for wildlife conservation, C Kinross, The University of Sydney, Australia, S D Wratten and G M Gurr
• Ecological engineering for pest management: towards a rigorous science, G M Gurr, S D Wratten and M A Altieri
